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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
I'm thinking of all high profile Republicians, especially those in office.
Just seems that 99% of the time, any republican is only speaking out now, or previously when they've quit and comment on their way out the door.
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This makes sense to me though from a ... I don’t know the right word ... self preservation view. Up until now, if you speak out, you get vilified by party leadership and by constituents. Romney is a good example, he gets crapped on by Republics or more accurately ReTrumplicans all the time. He has a respected and well known name which keeps him somewhat relevant. If you’re a leader from Alaska nobody has heard of do you speak up in 2018 and end your career? Perhaps Murkowski felt she was in a good position to help the people she served, plus - and this is a huge motivator - she was getting paid well.
I’m sure many of us have worked for people who had a differing view than we did and who may have made decisions we considered possibly unethical or at minimum not the direction we would take. We continue working there because we need a job and/or maybe we feel we can make a change or a difference. Eventually we move on and when it’s all over we look back on the totality of it all and say “this was wrong”. In the middle of it all, it is harder to pull the pin though.